I recently watched a documentary by the BBC about the search for Paul McCartney’s original 1961 Hofner bass guitar – the original Beatle violin-style bass. It was stolen out of a locked van in 1972 and the resources used to follow up on all the leads generated through a media campaign to find it were quite fascinating. The investigators eventually re-questioned one of the strongest leads they had who turned out to be the son of the man who stole it. Through him, they traced i

“I’m so bored with myself!” complains Manu Grace almost as soon as we start our conversation. She’s talking to me from her bedroom-studio in London, where she has been painstakingly watching herself over and over again while editing footage that had just been sent of her recent performance in Berlin - one of the first performances that she’s given in a very long time. She tells me that it’s dangerous to delve straight into the footage because it can quickly tarnish the memory

“Joy is an act of resistance.” – Toi Derricotte The unabashed bluntness of Moonchild Sanelly’s music reminds me of a line from riot...

Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and the strange qualities of jazz improvisation. On the second day of March 1959, “So What”, the opening track...